Green Methanol—An Important Pathway to Realize Carbon Neutrality

Junguo Li; Changning Wu; Daofan Cao; Shunxuan Hu; Li Weng; Ke Liu

doi:10.1016/j.eng.2023.08.005

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Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (10) : 27-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2023.08.005

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Green Methanol—An Important Pathway to Realize Carbon Neutrality

Junguo Li^a^,^b ,
Changning Wu^a^,^b ,
Daofan Cao^c ,
Shunxuan Hu^d ,
Li Weng^d ,
Ke Liu^a^,^b^,^d

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Junguo Li, Changning Wu, Daofan Cao, Shunxuan Hu, Li Weng, Ke Liu. Green Methanol—An Important Pathway to Realize Carbon Neutrality. Engineering, 2023, 29(10): 27‒31 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2023.08.005

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The authors are very grateful for the financial supports from Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (2016ZT06N532) with Shenzhen Supporting Fund (KYTDPT20181011104002), Shenzhen High-Level Professional Program (20160802681J), and Shenzhen Research and Development Fund (KQTD20180411143418361). The authors are grateful to Lipeng Wang, Junge Yang, and all of the workers in our group. We are grateful to Xin Yang of University of Oxford.

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Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (2016ZT06N532) with Shenzhen Supporting Fund(KYTDPT20181011104002); Shenzhen High-Level Professional Program(20160802681J); Shenzhen Research and Development Fund(KQTD20180411143418361)